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Be Your Own Pet – amerykańska grupa muzyczna punk rockowa z Nashville (stan Tennessee).

Muzycy

Ostatni skład zespołu
 Jemina Pearl Abegg – wokal
 Nathan Vasquez – gitara basowa
 Jonas Stein – gitara
 John Eatherly – perkusja

Byli w zespole
 Jamin Orrall – perkusja
 Jake Orrall – gitara

Dyskografia

Albumy
 be your own PET, 27 marca 2006, (XL Recordings)
 Get Awkward, 18 marca 2008, (Universal Records)

Minialbumy
 "Summer Sensation" – 18 kwietnia 2006 (Elastic Peace/Infinity Cat)
 "Damn Damn Leash EP (Japanese Import)" – 2005 (Infinity Cat/XL/Rough Trade)
 Extra Extra EP – 2006 Elastic Peace/XL

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Amerykańskie zespoły punkrockowe


SAN JOSE — Three adults were displaced Thursday night after a fire ripped through their Berryessa neighborhood home, authorities said.
The blaze ignited in the cluttered garage of a home on the 2700 block of Westberry Drive about 7:30 p.m., said San Jose fire Capt. Josh Staley. Driven by the wind, the flames quickly spread to the second floor.
Staley said firefighters managed to save about half of the home while also protecting surrounding residences. Two dogs were rescued from the home that went up in flames.
The Red Cross is providing assistance to the adults who were displaced as a result of the fire.


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We were supposed to be coming out on the 29th of March last week. I just wish we'd been able to achieve that, because this has gone on for far too long.
My Brexit update from another historic week in Westminster.
In the spirit of Henry Ford's "any colour as long as it is black", on Monday night we could have 'compromised' and voted 'Aye' to any Brexit option – as long as it was remain.


Greggs has revealed when its Bath bakery will reopen after it was devastated by fire earlier this year.
The bakery, in Westgate Street, was engulfed in flames at 4.40am on Sunday, January 13.
The chain said the bakery would be closed "for the foreseeable" future as a result.
Since then, Greggs has been involved in investigating the cause of the fire - a probe which is ongoing.
Eyewitness Brock Crockner said one of the shop's windows "exploded" in front of him. He then called the fire service.
At the time, he said: "It was very alarming. I was on a walk as I couldn't get to sleep.
"I was heading down Westgate Street and as I walked past the window of Greggs, one window exploded out.
"I immediately called the fire brigade. I went to see if anyone was inside, at a safe distance, and a guy came outside and said nobody else was indoors.
"I stood back and watched it unfold. As the fire started getting bigger, elements inside the fridge unit started exploding.
"There were lots of really intense explosions.
"Quite a few drunk people were close. I kept telling them to stand back as it was really dangerous. The wait for the fire crews felt a lot longer than five minutes.
"But time moves slower in these situations. They put it out within a minute or so and did a fantastic job.
Avon Fire and Rescue Service sent three crews from Bath fire station and a fourth engine from Temple in Bristol to tackle the fire.
Fire crews used a high-pressure hose and jets before clearing smoke from the building with a ventilation fan to put out the flames.
In January, A Greggs spokesman said: "The fire took place at our Bath Westgate shop in the early hours of Sunday morning at around 4.30am.
"No colleagues were in the shop at the time and nobody was injured.
"Further investigations are currently underway and the shop will be closed for the foreseeable (future)."
Now Greggs has told Bath Live when the bakery will reopen.
The chain hopes it will be back up and running in June or July.
A Greggs spokesman said: "We hope to reopen our store on Westgate Street as soon as possible.
"For the meantime, customers can visit our stores on Southgate Street and Moorland Road."


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WBRC has performed multiple studies and multi-phased renovations at University of Maine's Aubert Hall's marine sciences and chemistry laboratories.
Initial scope of work included construction of a new dry laboratory, wet laboratory, and lab prep room. Space renovations included new finishes, lab benches, fume hoods, walk-in cooler, laboratory plumbing fixtures, plumbed laboratory compressed air and gas services to benches, new VAV boxes, supply and exhaust air valves to provide high volume airflow for laboratory requirements.
Second phase included low-volume fume hoods, energy recovery systems, energy-efficient lighting and controls, and power and life safety system improvements. HVAC system components were selected to allow for future building renovations.
WBRC provided concept study services, including full upgrades, to the historic west wing of Aubert Hall, which was constructed in 1913. Study included upgrades to the chemistry labs, breakout classrooms, lecture hall and adjacencies, and existing exterior windows and envelope. The building's heating and cooling plant, as well as the energy management and automated HVAC controls systems, were reviewed. Electrical systems, including electric service, emergency power, and life safety systems, were reviewed. A complete assessment of the facility, including renovation costs necessary to complete the improvements were outlined in the report.
This Phase 1 project consisted of renovations to an existing corridor and three adjacent vacant classrooms located on the fourth floor of the east wing of Aubert Hall, a space designed to accommodate the university's Marine Sciences program. The scope of work included construction of a new dry laboratory, wet laboratory, and lab prep room. Space renovations included new finishes, lab benches, fume hoods, walk-in cooler, laboratory plumbing fixtures, plumbed laboratory compressed air and gas services to benches, new VAV boxes, supply and exhaust air valves to provide high volume airflow for laboratory requirements. Work also included new digital projection systems, energy-efficient lighting and controls, power, and life safety system upgrades. Renovation work was accomplished while adjacent spaces were occupied.
This Phase 2 project consisted of renovations to the first, second, and third floors of the north end of the west wing of Aubert Hall. The scope of work included complete renovation of three science labs, adjacent breakout classrooms, corridors, and construction of a new two-story mechanical room addition. The exterior façade received replacement of all windows throughout the entire west wing. The WBRC team used an integrated design approach working with stakeholders to reduce fume hood heating, cooling, and air flow demands for varying levels of occupant use. Design included low-volume fume hoods, energy recovery systems, energy-efficient lighting and controls, and power and life safety system improvements. HVAC system components were selected to allow for future building renovations.
WBRC worked with UMaine to solidify objectives, constraints and criteria, space requirements, flexibility, expandability, special equipment and systems in order to transform additional 50-year old spaces within Aubert Hall into 21st century STEM education classrooms.
Critical success factors for this project, which required merging modern technology, functionality and aesthetics, included: Focus on functionality for teaching; flexibility to enable students to work in small groups; seating capacity of 150 in Lecture Hall 316; efficient energy use; durability, and maintaining schedule and budget. Feedback from faculty helped determine specific priorities including quality writing surfaces, blackout shades, acoustic controls, and flexible seating.
Resulting efforts completed in 2015 include renovations of Aubert's Lecture Hall 316, a fourth-floor laboratory, breakout space, and a classroom. These renovations were completed while the building was occupied, on time and on budget.


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Deshaun Watson has chance to win early with Texans
Author: Salvatore Jensen May 04, 2017,
For the Texans first-round draft pick Deshaun Watson, a letter from his biggest supporter brought him to tears.
The Texans were a playoff team without Watson. His mom had her tongue surgically removed as she battled cancer when Watson was a teenager, beating all odds to be there for her son on draft night. Decoud projects as a safety in the National Football League and is a physical player that will help on special teams this season.
One of the major holes entering the draft was along the offensive line, as the draft went along the Texans held true to their board and it wasn't until the 130th pick when they took Julie'n Davenport. Really the only thing that the Texans didn't have heading into the 2017 NFL Draft of tremendous need was a franchise quarterback.
Dunn, a three-time Pro Bowler who was taken with the 12th pick of the 1997 draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is one of the most charity-minded players ever to play in the National Football League, with his foundation partnering with Habitat for Humanity to provide home furnishings and down-payment assistance to hundreds of families. "When the chips were down he was able to lead his team to victory". "And I don't even know what to say".
HOW DOES THIS GUY FIT: The Texans needed an outside linebacker after losing John Simon to the Colts in free agency. "I don't think anyone can argue with that". Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is also a Clemson alum, giving the Texans the most Tigers on one team in the NFL. In doing so, Houston exhausted its first-round pick in next year's draft.
In his four seasons as a starter at Gainesville (Ga.) High School, the Red Elephants went 46-10 and won a state championship in his junior year.
The Texans will add two more players on Friday with the 57th overall pick in the second round and the 89th pick in the third round.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Endorses Karen Handel For 6th District Runoff Election
Le Pen upstages frontrunner Macron in surprise visit
Latest GDP report is an economic wake-up call
Wizards squeak out win to go up 3-2 on Hawks
Enrique Describes Messi As Best In Football History
Bottas: friendly rivalry will end when title race heats up
Bottas beats Vettel in Russian GP for F1 win
Possible flooding rains lurk on the horizon
Facebook beats with Q1 report, nears 2B monthly users
US trade deficit narrows in March
Jones applauded, Machado buzzed as Red Sox top Orioles 5-2
Nawazuddin Siddiqui's look from Sridevi's Mom is terrifyingly satisfactory
Trump yet again refers to Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas'
Tesla 1Q loss widens on increased spending ahead of Model 3
Cabrera returns with homer in Tigers' 5-2 win over Indians
Hail to the king: Raptors coach says team can't watch LeBron
Lue favors a nine-man rotation in the playoffs, which left veteran Richard Jefferson on the bench until garbage time of Game 1 . They swept the first three rounds before dropping Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals to the Allen Iverson-led Philadelphia 76ers.
Puerto Rico hit with lawsuit after litigation freeze expires
Last week President Trump suddenly added fuel to those fires, saying on Twitter that there should be no "bailout" for Puerto Rico. Prior to enactment of the legislation, Puerto Rico would have been barred from any bankruptcy filing as a U.S. territory.
Sony's E3 2017 Press Conference To Take Place On June 12
After a recent report hinting Microsoft's new Xbox Project Scorpio, Sony is also secretly working on its next PlayStation console. Damian Thong is an analyst at Macquarie Capital Securities, and previously he had predicted quite a few things correctly.
General Election 2017: Underdog Jeremy Corbyn comes out fighting
Mr Austin, who has held the seat since 2005, also pledged to continue to represent Dudley people on Brexit in the House of Commons.
Budget not a down-payment on new border wall
That means Trump is days away from signing his first major substantive legislation, his OMB chief said. Mulvaney say that he's "not anxious about September" right now .
India summons Pak envoy over beheading of jawans
In an unsoldierly act by the Pakistan Army, the bodies of two of our soldiers in the patrol were mutilated . He said , the attack was preceded by covering fire from Pakistani posts in the vicinity of village Battal.
Huma Abedin Sent James Comey Hillary Clinton Emails to Print
As a result of the investigation, FBI investigators found thousands of new emails, some of which were classified. He likened the site to "intelligence porn" and said it pushed out information to damage the United States.
Facebook tops 1.9 billion monthly users
Analysts on average had expected monthly active users of 1.91 billion, according to financial data and the analytics firm FactSet. When we start digging into the numbers, we start noticing a few interesting developments that are perhaps concerning investors.
Tubelight teaser to be released in 2 days
An actor, Mustafa Qureshi from the country even said that he is totally against the release of Indian films in Pakistan. From now on, they are planning to drop the screening of big-budget Bollywood films during Muslim holidays.
Puerto Rico announces historic debt restructuring in court
In June 2016, Congress passed a law, PROMESA, that created a special oversight board to tackle Puerto Rico's debt problem. Austerity measures meant residents of Puerto Rico - who are US citizens - experienced slashes in government services .
Amazon Echo with built-in screen rumored for next month
Like the Amazon Echo , you can ask Alexa to play music, order toilet paper or control you smart home devices using Skills. Well, there are rumors that Apple could soon introduce a smart "Siri Speaker" too, indeed, as soon as this WWDC.
UFC to launch women's flyweight division
A previously announced tryout for "TUF 26" was to include women's strawweights and bantamweights as well as men's middleweights. The inaugural title fight for that weight class took place between Germaine de Randamie and Holly Holm at UFC 208 in February.
Fox News Co-President Bill Shine resigns as turmoil continues
Shine was named in the allegations against Ailes, and Fox was reportedly feeling pressure from activists after O'Reilly left . Abernethy, who has spent much of his time at Fox working with Fox-owned broadcast stations and not the news channel, remains.
Eric Thames invites drug testing after home run binge
Anderson is 2-0 with a 2.92 ERA in two career starts against them. "It just shows he's a valuable player for us", Counsell said. With another 9 runs on the board today, the Brewers have now outscored their opponents by a margin of 120-104 on the season.
Le Pen thrives among French poor, vote analysis shows
Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, whose party holds a majority in the legislature, got just 6 percent of the vote. Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie, made it into a presidential runoff against Jacques Chirac in 2002 and was crushed.
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What is Arweave?
Arweave is a decentralized technology that aims to permanently archive data through a distributed network of computers. Its aim is to create a digital repository that will last indefinitely.
As a result, Arweave has many similarities with other decentralized storage systems such as Filecoin and Sia, which all utilize cryptocurrencies to build marketplaces for consumers looking to purchase and sell data storage services.
Arweave, including these ambitious protocols, aims to challenge a business controlled by existing storage behemoths such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
How Does Arweave Work?
Arweave is a modern method of technology that utilizes a database to preserve data that cannot be lost or updated, and it uses economics to incentivize citizens to store the data for lengthy periods of time. This mix renders data immutable, whether it's public or private.
Arweave describes itself as a "novel data storage blockchain protocol" that, for the first time, enables a permanent internet and creates completely permanent data storage. It's a one-time-payment-forever storage model.
Arweave isn't a cryptocurrency in the traditional sense. Arweave holds the data in a graph of blocks rather than a chain of blocks that includes transactions and data, like most cryptocurrencies do.
This implies that each block in Arweave is bound to two previous blocks, creating a framework known as a "blockweave." In Bitcoin, on the other hand, blocks are joined in order to shape a chain.
Areweave's architecture often differs from other cryptocurrencies in terms of how it verifies transaction accuracy.
Arweave utilizes a separate mechanism named "proof-of-access" instead of asking machines on its network to compete to solve a mathematical problem, as Bitcoin does.
What is the History of Arweave?
Archain was the initial name for Arweave in 2017, but it was rebranded in 2018 after the Arweave team was admitted into the Techstars venture accelerator.
In 2019, Arweave earned $5 million from renowned venture capital companies Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
Arweave revealed an extra $8.3 million in support in March 2020, which would be used to expand the Arweave ecosystem of users and creators.
How Do I Hold Arweave?
AR is currently only compatible with the official Arweave wallet.
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I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) [Second Version]
Recording of "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland)
March 31, 1965 Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A, Detroit, MI Track recorded
April 8, 1965 Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A, Detroit, MI Additional recording
April 9, 1965 Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A, Detroit, MI Vocals recorded
Most Well-Known Version Of This Recording
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) 2:44 The Four Tops Studio 1965
Producer Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Baritone Saxophone Solo Mike Terry
Background Vocals Abdul Fakir, Lawrence Payton, Renaldo Benson, Louvain Demps, Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrows
String Section Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Guitar Joe Messina
Piano Johnny Griffith
Baritone Saxophone Mike Terry
The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. 5: 1965 Various Artists August 4, 2006


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Choosing Peace: The Strange Genre Subversion of Undertale
Undertale operates based on a simple premise, which is actually just a question: do you really have to kill every foe you encounter in a video game?
Violence in all media is generally an easy way to generate conflict, and therefore drama. But Undertale, created almost entirely by a single programmer/designer/composer named Toby Fox, seeks to challenge the basic assumption that violence is the only way to create meaningful conflict in a game. Within the familiar framework of a retro-styled RPG, it allows for peaceful resolution of every encounter you find yourself in. If you decide to kill your foes instead of convincing them not to fight, those choices are reflected in the game world, which becomes either more hostile or more welcoming depending on how wantonly murderous you decide to be. It's a fascinating inversion of a familiar genre.
In Undertale, you play as a human child who falls through the earth into the world of monsters who were forced underground by a war with humankind. The first being you encounter is a flower named "Flowey" who, in the fashion of many similar characters in fantasy stories, offers to take you under its wing and teach you the ways of the underground world. Flowey is a liar, however, and attempts to kill you if you accept its help, shouting that down here, "it's kill or be killed." You're saved from its attack by a peaceful caretaker named Toriel, who apologizes for Flowey's behaviour and introduces you to the basic puzzle-solving mechanics of the game. With this first subversion, Flowey's betrayal, Undertale establishes its pattern of upending the normal functionality of a role-playing game, perhaps best exemplified by its aforementioned core element: the fact that Flowey was a liar through and through, and when it told you that the game would operate on a "kill or be killed" basis – the norm for almost any game – it was lying through its teeth (or… petals, or whatever).
Pretty much every RPG in existence asks the player to slay a veritable menagerie of foes, large and small, humanoid or otherwise, as a method of gaining experience, levelling up to become more powerful, and progressing through the story. The general conceit is usually that of an ordinary person thrust into an extraordinary adventure, faced with a great evil they have no hope of defeating. The parade of lesser foes thrown at you, who become more and more powerful as you do, act as a way to illustrate character growth, and help you feel ready to face the Big Bad once you have fought your way to the top of its tower. Undertale looks at this game design approach – common in titles from thirty years ago to today – and asks, why? Why does killing a legion of enemies have to be the only way to progress?
When entering a battle phase, you're given the normal options: FIGHT, ITEMS, and so on (all presented with the blocky text menus and pixelated graphics of yore, of course). Undertale adds a new option, however – ACT – which allows you to converse with your foe. Sometimes the animated vegetable you're fighting just needs a kind word before it will leave you alone. Sometimes the blob of living acid that attacks you is just lonely, and would appreciate hearing a joke. Your options for communicating with your enemies will vary, but the tone is always the same: you can fight, but you don't have to. Maybe it's worthwhile to try talking it out? These actions have consequences, too: if you consistently spare your foes, then enemies further down the line will have heard of your benevolence and treat you with respect (and so too will they become instantly hostile, when you've killed all of their friends).
Fox, in creating the game, made a canny choice in including lots of humour in the text-based interactions of Undertale. There isn't any way to present the idea without a tongue-in-cheek approach. I mean who cares, really, what a living vegetable has to say? It's enough that the game asks that question, though, because it comes from a place of empathy. Maybe we don't care what the animated flora in our games have to say because it's never occurred to us to ask them. It's a silly concept, but kind of a beautiful one, too – it challenges us to carefully consider the actions we've taken so many times before, accusing us of having taken them for granted for so long as a necessary, even welcome, part of the RPG experience. That, I think, is a valuable conversation to have.
So it's good that the fundamental aspect of the game is so strong, because Undertale is not without its problems. For all its subversion of RPG tropes, it also reflects them – warts and all – with perfect accuracy: there are countless random encounters, long periods of grinding through fights for experience and gold, and a general sense of repetition that, despite its attempts to freshen up familiar elements, Undertale just can't make into a fun experience. It attempts to inject some more action-oriented gameplay into the tired turn-based combat system by having you dodge incoming projectiles in a manner similar to Japanese shoot-em-up games like Galaga or R-Type, but this, too, gets old fast. The humour, while important in conveying the anarchistic tone of the game, can become cloying and even irritating – which is perhaps simply reflective of the game's creator and his personal sense of humour, since he seems not to have collaborated with another writer.
Despite these shortcomings, Undertale was one of 2015's critical darlings, and it's not hard to see why. For a game created by only a handful of people to become so successful is unusual and praiseworthy enough, but Undertale earns extra points for its clear-eyed examination of player motivation and agency. Its resemblance to other boundary-pushing titles like Earthbound is no accident, and it both celebrates and deconstructs such classics of the genre in a way unlike anything we've seen. I don't expect its ideas to affect any real change on the RPG genre anytime soon – I very much doubt that Final Fantasy XV is going to allow you to talk your foes out of fighting you – but I think Fox would be content simply to know that he will have made thousands of gamers pause for a moment, and consider what choosing ATTACK might mean.
– Justin Cummings is a writer, blogger, playwright, and graduate of Queen's University's English Language & Literature program. He has been an avid film buff, gamer, and industry commentator since his childhood cinema first installed an arcade. He is currently helping to make awesome games at Ubisoft Toronto, and continues to pursue a career in professional criticism.
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Labels: Games, Justin Cummings
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While exploring the cave divers will see stalactites and some beautiful rock formations. They will also encounter morays, scorpionfish, crawfish, octopi and barracuda in surrounding waters.


Disclaimer: I'm addicted to Type 2 fun. This is the category of fun that involves physical effort, sometimes isn't exactly enjoyable at the time but is fun when you look back on it, and usually makes for good stories. It lies on the spectrum between Type 1 straight-up-easy-fun and Type 3 possibility-of-serious-injury-or-death-fun.
I love ski touring in New Zealand because it tends to involve Type 2 fun. In fact, Kiwis are badass and believe outdoor endeavors that your average adventurer would call borderline crazy are perfectly reasonable. They are masters of Type 2 fun (as well as Type 3 fun, but my sense of self-preservation steers me away from that. Usually).
Combat skinning over questionable coverage bridging significant patches of bare dirt and tussock.
The endless dance of skis on, skis on pack, skis over shoulder, skins off, skins on.
WIND. New Zealand is windy. And because all skiing is above the treeline, it means that most snow is wind-affected—wind loaded, wind hammered, wind packed, etc.
Four points of contact scrambling (less for mountaineering purposes in my case than because I'm clumsy).
Wind-packed powder, bulletproof, breakable crust, ice, etc. Sometimes all in the space of a turn.
Freezing temperatures in ice fog (yes, windy ice fog) followed immediately by sweaty skinning conditions in full sun.
For those of you who've never backcountry skied, you may be wondering why the hell this would ever be fun.
For those of you who consider backcountry skiing to be part of your religion, you know exactly what I'm talking about: the insane views, ranks of snow-covered peaks sprawled across the horizon in every direction. Linking your first perfect turns that you earned with your breath and your sweat. That feeling at the end of a long day, exhausted, blissed out, a beer in your hand, soaking in the aftermath of Type 2 fun.


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Weekly Horoscope: Here's How To Rock The First Full Week Of Spring
By The AstroTwins Astrologers & Best-Selling Authors
Image by mbg Creative x Carles Rodrigo Monzo / Stocksy
This week, the AstroTwins explain how to take advantage of some of the potentially game-changing transits coming our way.
On Tuesday, Venus enters Pisces and evokes some serious spring fever.
Does it seem as if the birds are chirping a little louder and the bees are amplifying their buzz? You're probably not imagining it! This Tuesday, March 26, ardent Venus floats into dreamy Pisces, turning everyone's low-grade case of spring fever into a full-scale pandemic. Between now and April 20, Cupid may wing in on daily commuter flights delivering shipments of rose-colored glasses. And if you squint a little, you'll see poetry in, well, everything.
This enchanted cycle may spur a romantic AND artistic renaissance, but you'll have to slow down if you want to fully experience it. Make time to meditate, daydream, and court the muse. Relaxing will put you in a receptive state, ideal for heart-opening moments. The downside of Venus in Pisces is that it can make people rather gullible. Pisces is the master of illusions—and while this might work well for composing love sonnets, it can be dodgy when it comes to screening amorous candidates. Run the background searches (and take your time!) to avoid falling head over Stan Smiths for someone who isn't 100 percent available or reliable. Everyday routines can become magical rituals while enchanted Venus hovers here. Start your mornings with journaling and a mug of loose-leaf tea instead of going from bed to coffeepot to computer.
On Thursday, Mercury retrograde ends.
On Thursday, lift the gag orders! After a choppy three weeks, messenger Mercury wakes up from its befuddling three-week retrograde and powers forward through Pisces until April 17. With the messenger planet backstroking through the Fish's murky waters since March 5, emotions may have overtaken everyone's better senses. If you found yourself crying—"inexplicably" or for a damn good reason—you'll have to admit that the tears were healing. But enough of this three-hanky drama! With Mercury back on track, the chronic misunderstandings that disrupted March can give way to healing reconciliations. Contracts that were held up in red tape could finally move into the negotiation (and signing!) phase. But don't lose the important message Mercury retrograde taught about the pitfalls of skimming the surface instead of finding out what lies beneath. Even if you learned this in a tough love kind of way, you can move into April with a new resolve to slow down, get every question answered, and read the fine print.
On Sunday, Mars moves into Gemini and sets the stage for partnership and collaboration.
The final shift of the week (and what a week it will be!) comes on Sunday when motivator Mars buzzes into Gemini until May 15. The red planet visits each sign every other year, and in Gemini, he sets the stage for prosperous partnerships. The search for our kindred spirits could be an exhilarating one now, but don't rush to bestow the "soul twin" label on just anyone. What looks like The One, walks like The One, and even speaks the patois of The One may not actually live up to his or her promise—though it's easy to jump the gun with the red planet's pressure. When the urge to merge strikes, test the waters with a short-term collaboration to see where the rubber meets the road. Variety is the spice of life when Mars is in Gemini, so there's actually no rush to commit at all. Why not taste from the sampler platter before deciding on a favorite dish? Gemini is the communication sign, and debates could be quite lively now, as well. We'll have to be careful not to make any promises that we can't keep, though—even if it IS Mars in Gemini's right to change his mind. Like, hourly!
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioCandlestickHistory;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioCoinInfoWrapper;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioCurrencyPairs;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioDepth;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioMarketInfoWrapper;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioTicker;
import org.knowm.xchange.gateio.dto.marketdata.GateioTradeHistory;

@Path("api2/1")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public interface Gateio {

  @GET
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  @GET
  @Path("pairs")
  GateioCurrencyPairs getPairs() throws IOException;

  @GET
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  @GET
  @Path("tickers")
  Map<String, GateioTicker> getTickers() throws IOException;

  @GET
  @Path("coininfo")
  GateioCoinInfoWrapper getCoinInfo() throws IOException;

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  @GET
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  @GET
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  GateioTradeHistory getTradeHistory(
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      throws IOException;

  @GET
  @Path("tradeHistory/{ident}_{currency}/{tradeId}")
  GateioTradeHistory getTradeHistorySince(
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      @PathParam("currency") String currency,
      @PathParam("tradeId") String tradeId)
      throws IOException;

  @GET
  @Path("candlestick2/{currency_pair}")
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      @QueryParam("group_sec") Long interval)
      throws IOException;
}

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Energy storage is being stored in the form of hydrogen, heat, electricity and biogas. Storage takes place on both the small and medium scale, in homes, businesses, housing complexes and in the transport sector.
A small installation that stores hydrogen, heat and electricity simultaneously for homes and small businesses.
A small hydrogen station that moderates the peaks and dips in power demands.
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Manila, July 21 2003 By Zinnia B. Dela Peña (Star) The Philippine Stock Exchange is opening its doors to real estate investment funds as part of an effort to develop and expand the financial products available to the investing public.
PSE Chairman Alicia Arroyo said the real estate investment fund facility, which the exchange hopes to launch within the year, will help inject liquidity in the property market.
Arroyo said a number of investment banks have signified their interest to handle this type of fund.
PSE president Ernest Leung said the investment banks will pool the assets that would be offered for sale to investors.
A real estate securities fund seeks to obtain a favorable long-term total return through both capital appreciation and current income by investing primarily in the equity and fixed-income securities of companies involved in the real estate industry.
Real estate investment trusts are being offered in stock exchanges in Japan, Singapore and Australia.
The fund will allow investors to build more diversified and focused investment portfolios.
Many studies have shown that investing in real estate provides investors with the potential for increased dividend income as well as the potential for reduced overall portfolio risk and higher returns.
Real estate investment trusts – also known as real estate stocks – have outperformed most other major market benchmarks over three decades with less volatility.
The PSE is studying the marketing and possible listing of more mutual funds. It earlier announced plans to list exchange-traded funds to give investors more choices on where to park their money.
ETFs are open-ended funds which track indexes or sectoral basket of securities that are listed and traded on a stock exchange. Investors may diversify their portfolios by investing in a single unit of ETF which conveys ownership in a group of securities representing specific industries or market sectors.
Because ETFs are exchange-traded, they are continually priced and can be traded intra-day. They enable investors to easily rebalance their portfolio at a low cost or to take advantage of a market trend.


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Disney Frozen seems to be on everybody's minds so I made yet another Frozen tutorial. This tutorial will be for learning how to draw Kristoff kissing princess Anna. This is a great drawing to make for Valentine's Day or just because you can. We will guide you to draw this picture with simplified shapes such as letters and numbers. I hope that you enjoy this tutorial.
Lightly draw an oval and a square for the structure of Kristoff's face.
– Use the guidelines of the face to help you draw the actual face structure.
– Draw an upside down ?-like shape for the nose.
– Draw a sideways letter 's' shape for the chin.
– Draw the eye – a filled in letter 'c' shape.
– Draw letter 'z' shaped lips.
– Draw a line around the circle of the head for the hair.
– Draw a sideways letter 'L' shaped collar.
– Draw a curved line for Anna's eye.
– Lightly draw a circle and a square for the structure of Anna's face. Draw a line for Anna's lips.
– Draw 2 curved lines for Kristoff's ear.
Anna: Draw 2 letter 'c' shapes for her ear. Draw her chin using the square to guide you.
Kristoff: Draw a line to the right of his nose. Draw a letter 'T' shape to finish off the chin / neck area. Draw letter 'W' and letter 'V' shaped hairs.
Anna: Draw a letter 'v' shape for her collar. Lightly draw a #8-like shape for the start of her braid.
Kristoff: Draw a curved line on Anna's face for Kristoff's glove. Draw the bottom of his hair.
– Draw curved rectangle shapes (almost ovals) for her braid.
– Draw ?-like shapes on Anna's and Kristoff's clothing.
– Draw letter 's' shapes in her hair.
– Draw the back of Kristoff's shirt.
Anna: Draw a letter 'P' shape on her shoulder. Draw letter 'V' shapes in the middle of her shirt.
Kristoff: Draw the shoulder area. and draw a curved line near his collar.
– Draw a few more basic shapes on Anna's shirt.
– Darken / thicken the lines.
– Draw a 2 curved lines for Anna's lips.
– Draw 2 apostrophe shapes (rain drop shapes) on Kristoff's glove.
Here is the finished drawing of Anna and Kristoff kissing. You can color them in by looking at the picture at the top of this tutorial. Show the picture off to all of your friends and come back for more Frozen tutorials as well as other drawing tutorials.
You should try a simpler tutorial and then work yourself up to this one. Drawing is hard but you can learn. Try this Chibi Anna tutorial and see if you can do this one.
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Attitudes towards online health consultations are changing, according to a pan-European survey by Stada, the German parent company of Thornton & Ross. However, local pharmacies continue to enjoy a high level of confidence among patients.
Four in five respondents to the survey preferred to receive medicines from their local pharmacist, either via collection or delivery, instead of using an internet pharmacy. Personal interaction with pharmacy staff was considered particularly important.
Turning to the digitisation of health services, a quarter of UK residents are now more likely to consult a doctor online, researchers found. This is particularly true in those over 50 years of age, who have traditionally been more resistant to digital medicine. Even before coronavirus, the number of those willing to consider digital diagnosis was increasing, with one in six using more online sources to find health advice.
The number of people willing to consult a doctor via a webcam or the internet for a minor illness was up by 20 per cent on last year, with 69 per cent saying online consultations would save travelling and waiting time.
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The UK is the country in Europe least likely to embrace health apps, with data security still a major concern. British respondents were also the most concerned about digitising large parts of their health data
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One knows Trump said he wasn't coming, Pheeleep. After all, one has done one's best to ensure that one leads a "sheet-hole" country, but best to keep safe than sorry. So, if we see anything orange we make for the helicopter, right? It will either be him or that dreadful Arlene person. Either way, being at Windsor will be preferable, even with all these beggars.
Erm… sometimes you have to wonder if the flash limos and hundreds of servants are worth the anguish of working under President Pinhead.
Arise, Sir Pledge. Oh and please take £115,000 a year to run your post-prime ministerial office, even if you were never the prime minister. And the Queen may not have seen fit to honour the fire, police and ambulance people, the porters, doctors, nurses and all others involved, but seriously, ask yourselves who the public value more. And remember, their baubles mean absolutely NOTHING.
Eugh… how revolting, in every way.
Ah, the worst pensions in the world are only safe with the broad shoulders of our beloved benighted kingdom! Just as well we stayed, isn't it?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jeremy Corbyn. You're not half a disappointment. Do you know anything about anything?
You might think that that was odd, but then, when you consider the other daft stuff the UK has pulled, it all seems quite logical.
Ooops, Philip. Bit of an old gaff there.
The closure of hundreds of branches of RBS in England, Scotland and Wales seems to have evoked very little interest in the House of Commons.
Ah, the good old democracy of the Benighted Kingdom.
Author trispwPosted on January 15, 2018 January 15, 2018 Tags Democracy, eu, Grenfell, Humour, Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, photos, The Queen24 Comments on RANDOM THOUGHTS
BRITAIN'S CHRISTIAN VALUES?
I noted that in Mrs May's Christmas message to us lesser beings (painful to watch as she tries to emote), she wanted to remind us that this is a Christian country.
She said: "Let us take pride in our Christian heritage and the confidence it gives us to ensure that in Britain you can practice your faith free from question or fear".
She is, of course, the English/female version of the Gordon Brown "son of the manse", the "vicar's daughter"
Arlene must have told her what to wear.
I managed to avoid the Queen's Christmas message (well done. Tris) but I'd lay a pound to a penny that she reminded us that in her long reign she has always tried to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. After all, she tells us that every year.
And we all know that the real power in the country is held by an unelected Christian fundamentalist, who apparently believes that the world was created by God 6,000 years ago and that he laboured for 6 days doing it, and took the seventh day off. And you mustn't call her a dinosaur because there never was such a thing!
And yet these three women, strong advocates of Christianity, oversee a country where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
It's a mean cruel little place in which a woman who is going to marry into the royal family can spend £55,000 on a dress for a photoshoot, parliament can spend tens of billions on doing up its own buildings, Buckingham Palace gets extra money for repairs… and at the same time doctors are prescribing food to patients who are ill because of malnutrition and we see the return of Victorian poverty illnesses like rickets.
And that's BEFORE we leave the EU, which now all but a few predict will be an economic disaster for Britain at least for the foreseeable future.
The following came from readers comments in the article above. Just how inhuman do you have to be to put this kind of regime into operation?
Examples of Benefit Sanctions
"One case where the claimant's wife went into premature labour and had to go to hospital. This caused the claimant to miss an appointment. No leeway given"
"It's Christmas Day and you don't fill in your job search evidence form to show that you've looked for all the new jobs that are advertised on Christmas Day. You are sanctioned. Merry Christmas"
"You apply for three jobs one week and three jobs the following Sunday and Monday. Because the jobcentre week starts on a Tuesday it treats this as applying for six jobs in one week and none the following week. You are sanctioned for 13 weeks for failing to apply for three jobs each week"
"A London man missed his Jobcentre appointments for two weeks because he was in hospital after being hit by a car. He was sanctioned"
"You've been unemployed for seven months and are forced onto a workfare scheme in a shop miles away, but can't afford to travel. You offer to work in a nearer branch but are refused and get sanctioned for not attending your placement"
"You are a mum of two and are five minutes late for your jobcentre appointment. You show the advisor the clock on your phone, which is running late. You are sanctioned for a month"
"A man with heart problems who was on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) had a heart attack during a work capability assessment. He was then sanctioned for failing to complete the assessment"
"A man who had gotten a job that was scheduled to begin in two weeks'time was sanctioned for not looking for work as he waited for the role to start"
"Army veteran Stephen Taylor, 60, whose Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) was stopped after he sold poppies in memory of fallen soldiers"
"A man had to miss his regular appointment at the job centre to attend his father's funeral. He was sanctioned even though he told DWP staff in advance"
"Ceri Padley, 26, had her benefits sanctioned after she missed an appointment at the jobcentre – because she was at a job interview"
"A man got sanctioned for missing his slot to sign on – as he was attending a work programme interview. He was then sanctioned as he could not afford to travel for his job search"
"Mother-of-three Angie Godwin, 27, said her benefits were sanctioned after she applied for a role jobcentre staff said was beyond her"
"Sofya Harrison was sanctioned for attending a job interview and moving her signing-on to another day"
"Michael, 54, had his benefits sanctioned for four months for failing to undertake a week's work experience at a charity shop. The charity shop had told him they didn't want him there"
"Terry Eaton, 58, was sanctioned because he didn't have the bus fare he needed to attend an appointment with the jobcentre".
Added to this they removed £30 a week from the sickest people, they are in the throes of rolling out a system for benefits (Universal Credit) that does not work (still!) but not in Cabinet ministers' constituencies, and amongst a list of other miserable mean minded policies aimed at saving money at all costs, most of the people of Grenfell Tower (the building that burned down because the richest council in England couldn't be bothered putting proper insulation on it because it was populated by poor people, and for whom there was recently a big service in London, with bigwigs including Charles and William and the Maybot herself), are still homeless, and May laughed off the notion of child homelessness on the basis that kids weren't actually sleeping on the cold streets in the open air…as many adults are. All fur coats and no knickers!
In England, NHS trusts are cancelling non-emergency operations as their health service falls apart for lack of money, staff and someone to manage it. Schools in some areas are washing kids' clothes and taking parents to food banks or feeding them in breakfast clubs, while at the same time begging for money for books from richer parents. Prisons in England are in many cases privatised. The staffing levels are ridiculously low and the population ridiculously high. Violence is rife and riots are frequent.
I could go on, through other areas of public life: ships that are letting in water and that were built to carry aircraft we haven't bought, Cabinet ministers falling like ninepins because they lie to the prime minister… the lowest pensions in the developed world to show how little we care about our elderly population (unless they are royal or lords) and the total mess that is Brexit deteriorating by the day…but by now you're getting bored.
A lot of Munguin's readership is Scottish. We are lucky. Our health service is the best performing in the UK, as are our trains. Our prisons are better managed, and so far I've heard nothing of rickets. Far from perfect, we may be, but we are lucky. It's no joke to be in England and not to be rich. (They find money for rich people)
So that is the Britain which hails blue passports as a major achievement.
That's the Queen's idea of a Christian society.
That's Mrs May's idea of Christian government.
I'm not a Christian, but I was forced as a schoolboy to go to daily Christian services at school in England and made to do two lessons a week of Bible Study, so I know a few things about the basic principles of Christianity after all these years.
Either our teachers were lying, or the people who oversee this mess, Liz, Arlene and the Maybot don't even begin to resemble Christians.
Nope, Daily Mail. We shall sneer and sneer and better than sneer at your iconic blue passports, ya roasters. The moronic thing is that they won't be iconic. They will look exactly like everyone else's passports because they are required to meet standards set by the UN. And, you could have had blue passports all along, of course, but then you wouldn't have been able to blame that on the EU. The EU never demanded red. Maybe you could put a wee story in them so that we will have something to read while we queue at immigration as aliens instead of EU citizens?
Author trispwPosted on December 25, 2017 December 25, 2017 Tags Arlene, Britain, Grenfell, Humza Yousaf, kids, Pensioners, poverty, Queen, Shona Robison, Theresa May48 Comments on BRITAIN'S CHRISTIAN VALUES?
FRIDAY FOTOS
Apologies for the lack of work this week.
And I know it's been an exciting week, what with Derek's budget proposals, Ruth's admission that she'd not be averse to a London parliamentary seat (the worst kept secret in the world), the Mayhembot being beaten in parliament on taking back to control to their parliament (instead of a cabal of right wing nut jobs), Kezia being sent to the Scottish equivilent of Coventry, and the high nesses Willie and Charlie joining the Maypole at a service for the survivors and victims of the greed and incompetence of Kensington Council, many of whom still have no permanent home.
Charles and Willie, of course, will remember when their mother's/granny's place at Windsor went up in flames and they had to throw Rembrandts and Van der Neers out the window. A dreadful year. An annus horribilis, in fact!
Doubtless, the royals were thinking to themselves how awful it was for these people to lose their priceless works of art (I mean your average Botticelli doesn't look its best after being flung from the 20th floor of a multi), but then consoled themselves in the sure and certain knowledge that those who were left alive would have, as mama/grandmama had, decanted to one of their other houses, filled with equally desirably artworks
Then there was the slap in the face that Trumpy got when despite his presidential endorsement, Roy Moore and his horse were not elected to the US Senate, and the South's South, the reddest state in the union, elected a Democrat senator, leaving Trump's majority on the shoggliest of nails.
Finally, of course, there was that magical and heartwarming news that Harry the Hunter and his bird are to be wed, largely at our expense, on May the something or other. Joy unbounded. (Note to May: Brilliant day to bury any disastrous news.)
Anyway, there should have been articles on most if not all of those matters, and there was not. Munguin is not a happy chappy, and Tris is now sharing the cellars with Mick the Mouse. Nice bit of cheese for supper though!
Anyway… here's some auld pics to puzzle over. Hope that makes it up to you! Munguin says you can all have 10 per cent of your subscriptions back….
What more could you ask?
Author trispwPosted on December 15, 2017 Tags Derek MacKay, Donald Trump, Grenfell, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Ruth Davidson, Theresa May, Windsor44 Comments on FRIDAY FOTOS
LET'S HOPE YOU NEVER MAKE A SPELLING MISTAKE, DAILY MAIL
Grenfell was a tragedy in which 79 innocent people died.
The Daily Mail gives us all a spelling lesson.
Let's hope that, revolution or not, there will soon NOT be a Daily Mail. It's becoming as disreputable as The Sun.
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Abstracts and Reviews in:
Pediatric Digest
National Foundation Briefs
Maternity Briefs
Currents in Public Health
Saturday Review
Resurgence
American Academy of Pediatrics News
and others as well as numerous newspaper articles.
Featured Speaker and Workshop Leader
Additionally she has addressed issues of universal concern, and several that specifically address the health and welfare of women, of mothers, and children and families. She has been a featured speaker and workshop leader in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia on these, and other topics, some of which are as follows:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Springing the Trap of Life, An Expose of Stress.
When Stress Becomes Distress.
Allergies and Stress.
Putting Light into Burnout.
Dealing with the Stress of Being a Care Giver.
Healing the Healer.
The Underlying Causes of Dysfunctional Child Behavior and Performance.
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children.
Neuro-Developmental Disorders in Children.
Understanding and Healing the Scars on the Souls of Humankind.
Using Light, Color, and Sound in the Management of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children and as a Means to Reduce Violence.
The Sacredness of Memory.
Immunology of the Soul, The Paradigm For the Future.
The Psalms of Children, Their Songs and Laments.
The Consciousness of Women, It's Role in Woman's Health Issues.
Grief and its Fall Out.
Coping With the Dying and Death of Children and of Parents.
The Genetics and Biology of Free Will.
Beyond the Genome.
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THE POWER OF LIFE IN STEM CELLS
On March 11, 2008 both The Today Show and the Evening News on NBC TV (U.S.A.) reported the wonderful story of the little boy, who five days after being injected with his own cord blood, which had been saved at his birth, was able to interact, talk, and walk for the first time in his young life. As an infant he had been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, and as time progressed had failed to achieve developmental milestones. With little hope for any improvement his parents, in conjunction with his doctors, opted to inject him with stem cells from his own cord blood.
Five days later he began to interact socially and smiled, talked and walked.
This apparent miracle is in fact a beautiful expression of the thrust and power of LIFE and restoration of its intended FORM and FUNCTION that resides within stem cells. What drives them to work their wonders are two as yet not fully understood or appreciated entities that control and direct LIFE itself. These are
MEMORY and ENERGY.
In a sentence, the ability of stem cells to re-generate, re-engage and re-organize damaged structures of FORM and FUNCTION are directly dependant on the templates of Memories and the Energies that give life to and drive Body, Mind and Soul.
What happened in this case would appear to be a perfect example of how MEMORY and ENERGY in its multiplicity of overt and subtle frequencies cooperate in the creation and maintenance of form and function and what happens when these memories and energies are damaged.
Following is a brief resume of how these situations most likely play out.
All mature cells derive from stem cells and both are being constantly manufactured and replaced by successive generations. Within this context and in this case if cells that matured from stem cells operating in the early development of the fetus produced disorders diagnosed as Cerebral Palsy, while those produced later in pregnancy and stored in his cord blood restored more normal function, what was the difference between the two?
Obviously something happened early in the child's intra-uterine development to disable the cells engaged at that juncture in establishing normal (i.e. expected) form and function, while those created later in pregnancy escaped damage. In other words, in the first instance MEMORIES of what they were supposed to do were denied expression. In the second instance, the cells having escaped injury, were able to respond to the PRIMAL MEMORIES inherent in their ENERGY SYSTEMS and DNA received at conception and were able to operate normally. The result was the re-establishment of normal function.
Among several likely culprits in this scenario, one must look to the possible damaging and long term sequelae of procedures carried out during pre-natal care at times of great vulnerability to the developing fetus. High on this list are ultrasonograms, U.S.G.'s. They are routinely performed between 15 and 18 weeks of gestation, a time when cells are migrating from the NOTOCHORD, which is the primitive nervous system, to their intended destinations in the developing brain.
Recent studies have shown an association between sonograms taken during pregnancy and the subsequent occurrence of developmental abnormalities in the child. Earlier studies showed them to be meaningless in terms of immediate pregnancy outcomes. This being the case, why, other than for reasons NOT related to pregnancy outcome itself, is ultrasonography continued to be used? The question becomes critical because in order to get the image the USG waves slice through developing tissue, maybe cutting it and most certainly damaging it. Is this the possible answer not only in this particular case but also in the larger context of the significant increase in Learning, Behavior and other disabilities in children, and yes, autism as well, that has progressed in step with the increasing routine use of sonograms in pregnancy. Surely nothing compares with the urgency inherent in this question for it directly pertains to the wellbeing in Body, Mind and Soul of future generations.
Well designed and broadly based research is urgently needed to establish the safety or non safety of sonograms as routinely and currently used in prenatal care. More about this and related issues may be found in the books cited in this website, in particular Immunology of the Soul. There are as well other articles that may be found through search engines in regard to the relevant literature.
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Evan applies to take Gr. 11 Physics through Fulford Online, and provides documentation to the Fuflord Academy admissions department that he has met the prerequisite requirements and pays for the course.
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Evan completes his Physics course work and checks in by video with his teacher every week using the wifi at home, the arena and hotels when he's away at tournaments. He completes his final exam by Google Hangouts from his bedroom at the same time as the Physics students who are taking it in class.
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Europe | Germany and the World Cup
Klinsmann's castle
The hopes and fears of Germany's controversial national coach
Jun 8th 2006 | berlin
EVERY time Germany wins football's World Cup, some pundits assert, the country takes a turn for the better. Thus 1954 saw the start of the economic miracle, 1974 the birth of modern Germany and 1990 unification. The causality seems implausible, although some economists are talking up the 2006 tournament, which starts this weekend, and is being staged (like 1974's) in Germany. A clearer link exists between the country and its football association (DFB), since they display similar strengths and weaknesses.
The DFB, with 6.3m members, acts like a state within a state. In common with other German sports organisations, it has its own rules and enforcement methods. Even more than the political system, it is built for stability, not speed. It has its own parliament, which meets every three years and is made up of delegates from 21 regions. Its presidents' average age and tenure in office almost match those of popes.
Predictably, change comes slowly to the DFB. It was not until 1970 that it approved an official women's league. Only in 2001 did the DFB allow the top clubs to create their own subordinate governing body. Were it not for the World Cup, especially the staging of the final in the stadium originally built for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the DFB would still not have officially admitted its questionable activities during the Third Reich.
Yet until recently the DFB was highly successful. Because it saw market forces as incompatible with amateur sport, the DFB started a single professional league, the Bundesliga, only in 1963. This gave birth to the most modern league of the time, which may be why Germany was so good at football, says Thomas Kupfer, who has written a book on football management.
It was only a matter of time before stability turned into disadvantage. In 1990 the national coach, Franz Beckenbauer, promised that "working together with the eastern Germans, we will be invincible for years." But the DFB failed to make top clubs professional enough or to foster modern training methods. Nor was young talent encouraged and brought on. German football, like the economy, began to decline, which became obvious when the team was thrashed by England in 2001. Three years later, it took a drubbing at the 2004 European championships.
Enter Jürgen Klinsmann, a former star footballer, hired as national coach mainly because of a lack of alternatives—just as Angela Merkel became boss of the Christian Democrats in 2000. Mr Klinsmann planned not only to win the World Cup, but also to reform the entire DFB. Always a maverick, he capped his career as a player by moving to California to start a sports consulting business.
He has indeed proved a reformer. He has centralised power so that he can prepare his team properly. He has decreed a more offensive strategy, and tried out many younger players. He has hired trainers versed in modern methods, including (horror!) an American fitness guru. He is fond of management fads, communicating by e-mail and using motivational training. Despite (or perhaps because of) this, Mr Klinsmann has been vilified—not least for continuing to live in California. The DFB's board has rejected his candidate as chief talent scout, even though this job is central to his plans.
Will Mr Klinsmann stick around after the World Cup? Conventional wisdom says that the answer depends on how well Germany does. But he may also wonder if the DFB can ever change. Even were Germany to win, which looks unlikely, Mr Klinsmann might prefer to go back to California. That would make it hard to tout any victory as a harbinger of further reform, not just of Germany's football association, but of the country as a whole.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Klinsmann's castle"
Europe June 10th 2006
The irresistible rise of Ségolène Royal
Report rendered
In a hole
Politics exam
Victory, of a sort
Justice by majority
From the June 10th 2006 edition


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Development of new sod peat production technology in Finland
Ari Erkkilä, Arvo Leinonen, Juha Niemiaho
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference abstract in proceedings › Scientific
Sod peat is produced by cutting peat from the peat land to a depth of 30-50 cm by cutting disc or screw. Cut peat is macerated mechanically and extruded into sods or strips and dried on the production field. The share of sod peat production is less than 10% of energy peat production volume in Finland. Sod peat is used for energy in power plants, heating plants and in individual buildings. It is also used for space heating on farms, in greenhouses and in residential buildings. Nowadays, the main focus of the development is on peat production technologies that are less dependent on weather conditions and technologies that can decrease the water load in water systems. The new multi-layer sod peat drying method, being developed by SampoTech Oy and VTT in 2009 and 2010, is one method by which the independence of weather conditions in peat production could be increased. Also special machines have been developed for the new multi-layer drying method. In this method the main idea is to dry several sod peat production cycles partly at the same time without turning and windrowing the produced sod peat. The first sod layer is extracted and spread on the shaped and compressed field surface, e.g. at the centre of a strip. When the first sod layer is dry enough, it will be covered with a new sod layer. When the mean moisture content of the sod layer is about 60 w-%, a new harvest can be spread on the earlier layer. The procedure continues this way during the whole harvest season. In the new method the effect of rain on drying process will diminish because of the formation of drying base and the layered drying. The target is to produce at least 10 sod peat cycles in summer instead of two - three cycles with a current sod peat production method. The new harvesting method offers several advantages. It diminishes working-phases and equipment investment costs and thus lowers production costs and increases the quality of the energy sod peat. Obviously the most important advantage is the multiple production cycle and the ability to deliver larger quantities of energy sod peat.
International Nordic Bioenergy 2011
Book of Proceedings
Mia Savolainen
International Nordic Bioenergy 2011 - Jyväskylä, Finland
Finbio publications
production costs
sod peat
Erkkilä, A., Leinonen, A., & Niemiaho, J. (2011). Development of new sod peat production technology in Finland. In M. Savolainen (Ed.), International Nordic Bioenergy 2011: Book of Proceedings (pp. 173). Finbio publications, No. 51
Erkkilä, Ari ; Leinonen, Arvo ; Niemiaho, Juha. / Development of new sod peat production technology in Finland. International Nordic Bioenergy 2011: Book of Proceedings. editor / Mia Savolainen. 2011. pp. 173 (Finbio publications; No. 51).
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